Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enjoying the last weeks of liberty to proclaim their faith with rights more or less equal to Roman Catholicism's. This spring, barring some development not now foreseen in Rome, a new postFascist constitution will be approved which will put Italian Protestantism back into the same strait-jacket that Mussolini kept...
...dolefully slow. But sales of gay scarves were phenomenal. They were 1947's chief fad everywhere. Another fad: "shorty" coats (known in some stores as "swallow tails"). In Chicago, Marshall Field's offered a shorty specialty which was going like hot cakes among teenagers: a "hot-jive jacket" of yellow plastic with such sharp legends as "Natch" and "Slick Chick" printed on it. The "slicker" days of the twenties were back...
Dolan, champing at the arrival of the Equinox, has stolen the march on New England weather and the rest of the University by being the first 1947 summer seersucker jacket in the Yard. The nattiest of his four cotton Brooks Brothers models stood between his knitted tie and North Atlantic winds yesterday, as less hardy specimens still relied on tweed and corduroy...
Wearing a seersucker jacket, explains Dolan, first gave him a social conscience. When OPA lifted cotton controls last November, his favorite model skyrocketed from $17.50 to $22.50. He wrote to his congressman, as soon as his furnishers mailed him a bill for the increment...
...what the cavalry armored men still call "stables." The tanks were carefully worked over, guns cleaned. Then there was a dull lecture on military courtesy, an hour of athletics before the evening meal. After dinner Monson and two buddies changed to Class A uniform (cotton shirt and Eisenhower jacket), went down to the orderly room to pick up passes...